Need help with Warmoth !!

[SKYWALKER]

Hello

I just can find a guitar that really fit me so i will try to make one. But i know nothing about warmoth and i would love if you guys, could tell me how warmoth work ? Or i don't know if there is a "help" section on warmoth.com but i would like to know the more things I can..

Oh, and i know it depends on what you buy, but i would like to know if i am going to pay a lot, so i just wanna how much it can cost me ? what is the price range ?


thanks !

 

[fatigueofheart]

Re: Need help with Warmoth !!

it's the only way you can get a kickass guitar for around a grand nowadays........

 

[SKYWALKER]

Re: Need help with Warmoth !!

No one call tell me about a guitar he have made with warmoth ?? with general spec of it and the price it cost ??

 

[Davey]

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necropolo has a warmoth guitar.. and it kicks ass..but he's away on tour at the moment, so i dont know when he'll chime in

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Need help with Warmoth !!

My Warmoth Strat is awesome...the parts cost me a little more than $500, for an unfinished body, a finished neck, and all the stuff to make it a "guitar", but it's definitely MY Strat. Just play a lot of different guitars so you have an idea of what fits you the best and send your order...chill on the Warmoth site and see what they've got to offer you. It's a custom guitar shop at almost half the price...I know if I had asked Fender to make this thing, maybe the quality would be slightly better due to the trained luthiers working on it, but i'd still be paying it off today

-X

 

[big_black]

Re: Need help with Warmoth !!

I am in the process of having them make a neck for me, but I have nothing to report.

 

[Woodcutter]

Re: Need help with Warmoth !!

I've started looking into having a guitar custom built. about how long does it take to have warmoth biukd a neck and body?

 

[AStarUpInTheSky]

Re: Need help with Warmoth !!

I've started looking into having a guitar custom built. about how long does it take to have warmoth biukd a neck and body?

i just ordered a neck / body yesterday..my body was a custom one ( so they gotta build by hand ) and they said 4-5 weeks at the LATEST

 

[rspst14]

Re: Need help with Warmoth !!

Hmm, I just ordered a body from scratch the other day. It's a standard Strat body with a solid vintage white finish, and they told me 6-8 weeks. I just received a neck from them, it took about 5 weeks.

Warmoth is a good choice if you want a bolt-on guitar built exactly to your specs. You can choose all the options for both the body and neck, then you assemble the parts yourself or have a tech do it. You can choose things like body shape, pickup routing, bridge routing, neck profile, fret size, headstock shape, etc. You do need to be somewhat handy with tools to put it together yourself, and you'll need to drill holes for the strap buttons and the tuner mounting tabs. If you don't feel comfortable doing that along with all the wiring, plan on paying a tech to do the assembly. Check out their showcase, you can get pre-made parts at a discount price. It's a good choice if you don't need a ton of custom options.

Ryan

 

[AStarUpInTheSky]

Re: Need help with Warmoth !!

personally i love bolt on necks, its the main reason i go with warmoth almost every time.. they're really customer oriented at warmoth..and they do a freaking FANTASTIC job with bindings ( in my opinion ) for me this is pretty much the only way i can get the exact guitar i want..without having to skimp on anything..and have it come out to be under $1000 most of the time.. if you want im sure you could pick up a "how to build an electric guitar" book for around $20 at a book store and it will really help you with anything you need to do once you get the stuff from warmoth..

my body and my neck cost me $619.50 shipped and i dont think that 4-5 weeks is an unreasonable time to wait for a guitar considering most other custom shops are gonna make you wait quite a few months

 

[SKYWALKER]

Re: Need help with Warmoth !!

Yeah, I think i gonna buy a "how to build your guitar" book before buying anything else. I would really like to make my guitar because i never found one that had all the specs i wanted. I gonna have to pay a tech because i won't try to play in all the electronic and take a chance to mess everything up !!

 

[Fresh_Start]

Re: Need help with Warmoth !!

By the time I added the bridge, electronics, tuners, pickguard, etc., had Warmoth finish the body & neck (good job on that BTW), and had the frets levelled & dressed, the total cost was over $900. Specs are as follows:

2-piece alder body w/ quited maple top
Quartersawn maple "Warmoth Pro" neck w/ rosewood fingerboard, 10-16" compound radius & 6150 frets
Gotoh-Wilkinson tremelo bridge (sweet!)
Sperzel staggered locking tuners (also sweet)
GraphTech trem nut
APS-2/SSL-2/Custom 5 pickups

FWIW I would not buy a "Warmoth Pro" neck again, but the "Vintage" or "Vintage Modern" should be ok IMHO.

BTW the guitar is much more butterscotch colored than the orange that shows up on my monitor

You may also want to visit http://www.usacustomguitars.com/ as an alternative to Warmoth. USACG has more limited body styles - basically Fenderesque shapes - but they are much more flexible about neck options were easier for me to work with.

Hope this helps.

Chip

 

[SwedeNuck]

Re: Need help with Warmoth !!

Hey fresh start, what did you find wrong with the Warmoth pro neck? I had a Warmoth guitar a while ago (traded it for a 7) and the Les Paul headstock neck I had on that was superb.

 

[SKYWALKER]

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Chip

:32: :32: That guitar is like :32: :32:

Sweet Guitar you got there !!

 

[FretFire]

Re: Need help with Warmoth !!

I built a strat from parts from various sources. I got a Fender body off Ebay, the neck made by USA Custom guitars, pickups from people here on the boards, and the rest of the hardware from various online retailers. It ran me about $750 total, but I did the neck finishing myself, so you could add $50-75 to have someone else do that.